Facts to Know: The Civil War and Reconstruction

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Facts to KnowThe Civil War and Reconstruction
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Reconstruction

• Process of allowing the former Confederate
  states to rejoin the Union.
• Lasted from 1865 to 1877.

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1. Mason-Dixon Line

• Dividing
• Line between the North and South

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3, 4,5Civil Rights Amendments(No Citizens
Suffr!)

• 13th Amendment (No Slavery) slavery illegal
• 14th Amendment all people Citizens except
  Native Americans
• 15th Amendment Suffrage (right to vote) for
  African American men

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6. Freedmens Bureau

• Helped the newly freed slaves and poor whites by
  providing food, clothing, education and jobs.

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7. Black Codes

• Laws passed by
• southern states to limit the freedom of former
  slaves
• after the Civil War

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8.Lincoln Assassinated

• Five days after
• the Civil War was over
• 1865

By John Wilks Booth a southerner
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9. President Andrew Johnson

• Impeached because some members of Congress did
  not like his Reconstruction ideas
• Not convicted

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10. Carpetbaggers

• Northern republicans who had moved South after
  the war
• Some came to help but others got a bad reputation
  and were thought of as crooks

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11. Scalawags

• white
• Southern Republicans who opposed the Democratic
  majority in the South

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12. Ku Klux Klan

• 1866 a Secret society formed by white southern
  Protestants
• Opposed civil rights for African
• Americans

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13. Segregation

• Forced separation of one group from another group

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14. Jim Crow Laws

• Used in South to enforce segregation between
  whites and African Americans

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15. End of Reconstruction

• 1877, 12 years after the end of the Civil War
• President Hayes, a Republican, removes federal
  troops from the
• southern states

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16. Sharecropping

• African Americans and poor whites lived on an
  owners land and grew crops, which belonged to
  the owner

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17. Poll Tax

• Money that had to be paid in the South in order
  to be able
• to vote

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18. Buffalo Soldiers

• Free African Americans, former slaves, and former
  Civil War African American soldiers who served in
  the U.S. military

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19. Plessy v. Ferguson

• Supreme Court case in 1896
• Segregation legal as long as facilities, such as
  schools, for Blacks and Whites were equal
• Facilities were not equal !!!

Later in Brown vs Board of education it was
overturned